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Medibank refuses to pay ransom after 9.7 million health insurance customers have their data stolen

Embattled Australian health insurer Medibank says that it will not pay a ransom to cyber extortionists who stolen the personal data of…

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Medibank Refuses to Pay Ransom After Data Breach

Medibank believes there is a limited chance paying a ransom would return customers’ data

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Public URL scanning tools – when security leads to insecurity

Never make your users cry/By how you use an API

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Medibank Refuses to Pay Ransom After 9.7 Million Customers Exposed in Ransomware Hack

Australian health insurer Medibank today confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million of its current and former customers…

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Android RAT Group Targets Indian Defense Personnel

The app asked for several permissions, including camera, microphone, internet and storage

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This Hidden Facebook Tool Lets Users Remove Their Email or Phone Number Shared by Others

Facebook appears to have silently rolled out a tool that allows users to remove their contact information, such as phone numbers and email…

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Cyber Insurance Market Stabilizing as Security Awareness Improves

The cyber insurance market is beginning to stabilize following several years of steep rate increases, according to a recent report

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How an EIPAssociation in CloudFormation can Help Prevent Dependency Issues

ACM.104 Maintaining a static IP address when you need to delete and recreate an EC2 instance This is a continuation of my series on…

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Experts Find Urlscan Security Scanner Inadvertently Leaks Sensitive URLs and Data

Security researchers are warning of “a trove of sensitive information” leaking through urlscan.io, a website scanner for suspicious and…

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The Conviction of Uber’s Chief Security Officer

I have been meaning to write about Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former Chief Security Officer.

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How to prepare for a SOC 2 audit – it’s a big deal, so you’d better get ready

Organizations that want to prove to others – and to themselves – that they have a solid cybersecurity and data privacy program will undergo…

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Japan Joins Key NATO Cyber Agency

Another show of strength for the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence

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10 Cybersecurity predictions for 2023

As we head into 2023, we look back at the last year and the focus will continue to be on reducing risk exposure and resilience.

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6 ways to reduce your IoT attack surface

As attackers target the ever-growing IoT attack surface, companies can reduce their risks with these six security best practices.

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A Guide to Remove Malware From Your iPhone

Malicious software, or “malware,” refers to any program designed to infect and disrupt computer systems and networks.

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FBI: Beware of Cyber-Threat from Russian Hacktivists

Feds claim DDoS attacks are being aimed at critical infrastructure

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ICO: Department for Education Should Have Been Fined £10m

DfE oversight leads to misuse of data on 28 million children

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Robin Banks Phishing Service for Cybercriminals Returns with Russian Server

A phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform known as Robin Banks has relocated its attack infrastructure to DDoS-Guard, a Russian provider of…

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Prefix Lists in Network Rules to Access AWS Services Without CIDRs

ACM.103 Provide access to S3 (and yum) in network rules without adding every S3 CIDR to maintain zero-trust networking This is a…

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Bug in AWS IAM Console for User Groups

I was just updating my deployment script to add users to groups as part of my latest blog series on automated security metrics: Automating…

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Limiting Access to an AWS EIP in GitHub

ACM.102 Ensuring only authorized IP addresses can access your private GitHub repositories This is a continuation of my series on Automating…

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Researchers Uncover 29 Malicious PyPI Packages Targeted Developers with W4SP Stealer

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered 29 packages in Python Package Index (PyPI), the official third-party software repository for the…

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Microsoft Warns of Uptick in Hackers Leveraging Publicly-Disclosed 0-Day Vulnerabilities

Microsoft is warning of an uptick in the nation-state and criminal actors increasingly leveraging publicly-disclosed zero-day…

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Friday Squid Blogging: Newfoundland Giant Squid Sculpture

In 1878, a 55-foot-long giant squid washed up on the shores of Glover’s Harbour, Newfoundland.

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